A Scots bacon butty has been named as the best in the world in an online poll.
Made by the Horn milk bar on the A90, the snack attracted almost 800 votes when it appeared on technology news website the Register.
Dubbed the A90 Behemoth, it beat rival sandwiches from across the world, gaining 200 more endorsements than its nearest opponent, the Precision Engineer.
The £3.60 snack contains between 10 and 15 rashers of unsmoked streaky bacon on a soft white roll.
The Horn’s owner Kenny Farquharson (50) said he was ”delighted” to come out top.
”It feels great to win, especially when it’s worldwide.
”It’s one thing being well-known for bacon rolls around the UK but it’s another thing when it’s a worldwide achievement.
”We are not cheap but we like to think we give value for money; we probably put more bacon on our rolls than anybody else going.
”You listen to adverts on the radio for breakfast biscuits and things but you cannot beat a bacon roll.”
He puts the restaurant’s success down to maintaining the same sources of bacon and rolls for more than 30 years the bacon comes from HW Irvine butchers in Blairgowrie and the rolls are supplied by Rough & Fraser of Dundee.
He said: ”The secret is that you have to have the right ingredients for a start, you’ve got to know the source of your product.
”If you don’t have good ingredients from the kick-off, you aren’t going to be able to achieve anything.
”We don’t know the names of all the pigs but we certainly know where all the bacon comes from.
”You’ve got to be careful the way you present it, the way you cook the bacon and we train our staff to ensure that the bacon rolls we put out are top notch.
”Location is key; we are right beside the carriageway. 80% of our traffic comes from north of Dundee so we have to be bilingual – we have to speak Doric and we have to speak Scottish, and so do our staff. Even the foreign staff have to learn that as well.
”We are synonymous with the bacon rolls and long may it continue.”
Lester Haines, of the Register, said: ”Our poll proves that the discerning diner always works on the ‘more is more’ principal when it comes to bacon, and I’m delighted that our international readers selected the Horn’s truly magnificent and pork-packed behemoth as the ultimate bacon sarnie.
”I’ll be popping in to try one for myself as soon as I’m north of the border.”